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Okonomiyaki
Japanese pancake-pizza
Okonomiyaki is a mixture between pancake and pizza.
"Okonomi" means "as you like". This refers to the ingredients.
Ingredients:
- Dough
- 300 g flour
- 210 ml water
- 2 eggs
- Cabbage
- Possible ingredients to put into/onto Okonomiyaki
- Katsuobushi*: dried and grounded Benito (Katsuo). Moves on hot food and looks like alive.
- Spice made of blue seaweed*: Important for the typical Okonomiyaki taste. It is green and looks like dill.
- Beef: thinly sliced or grounded
- Pork: thinly sliced or grounded
- Chicken: breast-fillet
- Octopus*: cooked arms
- Squid*
- Prawn: large, raw
- Tuna: canned
- Leek or green onion
- Mushrooms
- and much more to try out
- Sauces
- Brown okonomiyaki sauce*
- Mayonnaise
* This ingredient may not be available in Western supermarkets, but you should be able to find it in Japanese grocery stores that exist in most large European and American cities.
Preparation:
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Cut four large, green cabbage leaves without the hard, white core in thin strings (ca. 4mm). |
- Mix the water, flour, eggs, and the cut cabbage together.
- You may now add more ingredients to the dough: eg. seafood, cut in little pieces, grounded meat, cut mushrooms, whatever you like ...
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Fry the dough like a pancake in a small frying pan. |
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Before turning the Okonomiyaki the first time, you may put other ingredients on top of the dough when it is still quite soft. You may press them a little bit into the dough. |
- Turn the Okonomiyaki. Be careful. It might be a rather tough task.
- When fried well, put Katsuobushi and maybe further ingredients which you didn't want to fry on top of the Okonomiyaki.
Serving and eating:
Eat Okonomiyaki with mayonnaise and Okonomiyaki Sauce.
General information:
Some of the most popular kinds of Okonomiyaki are prepared with only a few ingredients, for example, only with the green spice made of seaweed, katsuobushi, and the sauces. Or try the Korean style: leek only.
In Hiroshima, which is especially well known for its Okonomiyaki, it is served with or on top of Yakisoba (fried noudles).
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